dimanche 30 septembre 2012

Hello, one and all. This is a great month because some of my favorite members of the communion of saints are going to be celebrated. First and foremost, the Guardian Angels, followed by the 8 French Jesuits martyred by the Indigenous People of Northeastern North America in what is now Canada and New York State (Jean de Breboeuf and Isaac Jogues appear as headliners on the calendar), Saint Ignatius of Antioch and finally, new this year, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks. She appears on the sheepskin painting on the left of your screen. The world had to wait 332 years before being able to celebrate this brave virgin in heer full glory of sainthood. I remember admiring her as I was growing up in the Western part of Massachusetts where the French Jesuits were heroes and Kateri was honored and revered. God willing, I will be in St. Peter's Square to lift my heart up to her in love and admiration.I took this picture this morning (Sunday, September 30) at the Catholic chapel of the Morongo Tribe Reservation. Our Lay La Salette sister, Isabel is the person in charge of Liturgy for the home parish of the Chapel and so we went to the chapel to join the community for the Holy Mass. We were very warmly received by the faithful who were gathered in the small ante room which leads to the nave. They did not know us, but they all broke off their conversation, stood up and welcomed us with fraternal hugs, smiles and gleaming eyes. When they found out that Belle had been assigned to the parish as the Liturgy Coordinator, they were all very happy. Before I let you go, do not forget that this is the MONTH OF THE ROSARY.******************

mardi 18 septembre 2012

Ellen Herrel and Isabel DionIn Honor of the 2012 Feast of Our Lady of La Salette, the attached video highlights the First International La Salette Laity Summit held September 1—10, 2011, in La Salette, France.

The dramatization of the apparition at La Salette was staged after the Gospel reading in the three Spanish-language Masses. The girl in the role of the Blessed Virgin recited the entire message by heart. True to historical data, the role of Lulu was presented in absolute silence, without any neervousness in all presentations. The doctor responsible for the construction of the dramatization is seen sitting, dressed in white, behind and between Maximin and Melanie. It is none other than our sister Isabel (Belle) Dion. We look forward to receiving the recordings in a period of about 10 days.

samedi 15 septembre 2012

This is a meditation about Our Mother at La Salette and what her tears mean. This meditation is the result of the prayer life of a postulant preparing for the vowed religious life in the missionary community of La Salette in Brasil. His name is Emerson
José Aguiar da Silva. Click on the links that will bring you to your favorite language and pray in meditation along with the thoughts of our brother Emerson Jose.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lf5Zp8FBIrH_iN3xWHWsvtfeCvvQDejaAlmER0yW1DY/edit

Dear Paul, a salutation from papal Rome. I imagine that you and Belle and your entire family are well along with the Lay La Salettes. It appears to me that the meeting in Salmata went well. It produced so much interest and so much good will to keep everything going forward. There were all of forty lay La Salettes there. The next European encounter will take place in Poland in 2014. I am sure that Antonella will send you the documents that were instruments used for the work that was done and she will also send what was produced in the assembly. (My note to you, dear reader: I will share everything that I get with you.)
On the 15th, I and the general council will head for La Salette to celebrate the 166th anniversary of the Apparition. I will remember you and your family with greay joy. Have a great moment of preparation for our patronal feast day. Let us always stay united in prayer.===============================Le pere Silvano:

I have not forgotten about you! I wanted to write more often in all that time but I did not succeed!

I always read all your emails and thank you for the news you always write to us!

You are always in my heart and in my prayers!

Tomorrow we leave for the meeting european. We go to Umbria in Salmata where there is the Sanctuary of Madonna de La Salette!!

There are the delegation of Italy-Spain, France, Switzerland, Poland. I shall see some people who I met last year at the international meeting and I am very happy for this. For me it will be as embrace all of you!

We await the day of prayer, training, sharing and celebration. In Salmata together we will celebrate the International Day of the lay salettino!

We put under the protection of Mary these important days e we ask her to guide us in union and fraternity! We ask you to pray for us and for these days of meeting!

I will attach the program of the European meeting and the photo of the team of lay people who in January prepared the meeting with father Silvano, new Superior General!!

Marlene Maristela, Manila: Thank you for sharing the newsletter bearing greetings from Jean Pierre and Yvonnique. I share the same feelings with them. It indeed warms my heart every time I think of our encounter last year. I likewise sent my cordial greetings, through Anne Marie, for the European group who will be meeting this month.

Antonella Portinaro, Torino, Italia :
Happy anniversary to all the lay associates of La Salette in the world from Italy!
Lady of La Salette keep us always united in love for Jesus and help us to become seeds of reconciliation in the world!!
Peace and good to all!

We are about to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of La
Salette! And as part of the celebrations, we celebrate today the International Lay
Salettinian Day! This initiative began in the First International meeting of
Lay Salettinians last year, was confirmed by the General Chapter of the
Missionaries in April and now we make a date with joy. Celebrate Salettinian
identity with activities to deepen our spirituality and to make known the
gracious appearance of the Beautiful Lady. To all of you, Congratulations!

Our spirituality is Christocentric. Mary of La Salette wants
to take us to her Son Jesus. She speaks of "my son", wearing a large
crucifix on her chest and is surrounded by the Easter light of Her Son. Mary
cries over the separation between faith and life, a separation that harms the
human person in the depths of his being. She asks for prayer, especially the
Eucharist and Reconciliation which act as means able to reestablish the link
between our daily life and the source of meaning and joy: Jesus, the way, truth
and life. This Jesus, the only Savior, we are disciples and missionaries, and
stresses again and again in the Document of the Message.

The joy of every mother is to see her children happy, able
to bring life to a personal, material and spiritual level of happiness. So it
is with our mother of La Salette: "If they are converted, the rocks will
turn into heaps of wheat." It is wheat that feeds the body and it is wheat
that becomes Eucharist where Jesus is present as our Bread of Life.

That personal prayer and sacramental celebrations of the
Eucharist and Reconciliation, combined with actions to promote reconciliation
are visible signs this is the month of Salettinian
conversion linking faith and life for our good and that of the world.

We have learned that the 16th of September is also the date when the Lay Associates in the Philippines will make their promises for the year. Their promises will be taken by the provincial superior of the Province of Our Lady of Hope, Father Rosanno Soriano, MS

Happy anniversary to all who survived the first internation encounter of Lay Associates held at La Salette one year ago.

Ellen Herrel, Belle Dion, Fr. Ron Gagne, Fr. Paul Rainville, Father Pat and the humble secretary join together in this sincere wish and the prayers that accompany it.

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FATHER PAT UPDATE NOUVELLESNOTICIE

Dear Paul and Belle,

I wanted to give you an update on Fr. Pat.

We visited the LaSalettes at Hartford House on Thursday and then spoke with Brother Ron Taylor Friday afternoon.

Fr. Pat has been in the hospital in Grenoble since August 10. The doctors put him in an induced coma because he was in so much pain with severe pancreatitis. He seems to have some kind of infection. Recently, they brought him out of the coma to see how he was doing. He was in so much pain that they induced the coma again. It appears that he will be in the hospital another month. Let us all pray to Our Lady of LaSalette for a miracle healing. Her feastday is coming up on the 19th. Let us all pray.

Here it is, one year since the international meeting at La
Salette. I never forget all the participants
of this reunion and I too send along my best wishes to all La Salette
Associates in the world. HAPPY
ANNIVERSARY TO ALL.

We also unite our prayer intentions for the participants presently in
the European meeting at Salmata.

May the grace of God bless you all and may the call of the Blessed
Mother always open a new dawn for the edification of our fraternity and the joy
of reconciliation.

This is a message from our
sister Yvonnique who lives on the island of Reunion, a possession of France.

“Here it is already one year
since we all met one another. How many
wonderful memories return to our minds because of this wonderful
encounter. I just want to say, in simple
terms, Happy Feast Day on the 1oth of September, the day when we underline the
importance of our international meeting.
May we all be bathed on joy during the celebration of this important
anniversary which also marks the first day of the monthly novena. Let’s make this a day of intense emotion and
prayer. May thesemoments of prayer be
the true dawn of a new Church, assembled, unified, intensified by the presence
of God and His Mother Mary by our side.
We pray that in the image of Our Lady of La Salette who welcomes us with
open arms in our joy, our sadness or our hope, we also keep ourselves open,
attentive and united as a Church more fraternal and welcoming in holy
solidarity. HAPPY FEAST DAY OF LA
SALETTE TO YOU ALL.

To celebrate the 1st anniversary of the first International Meeting of the La Salette Lay Communities from around the world, we thought that you should see what the missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette looked like after their first ten years in the Philippines. Please not that they are all of French or French-Canadian descent except for the handsome young Filipino, second from left in the first row, the now revered, Jose Nacu, better known to one and all as Jonax. This photo was found in Moreno Valley by a very young priest who has been a member of the Priests' community of Moreno Valley for two years. I have scanned it for him and returned the original.

The those who may be curious about such things, the Dean of the group is Father Emory DesRochers, the tallest person in the photo, in the back row. The pretender to the dean's throne is rather far behind in seniority, but nevertheless maintaining his aspirations, Father Maurice Cardinal, who is standing just in front of the left shoulder of Father Emory. Father Maurice is presently the spiritual guide of the Lay La Salette Associate Community in the California Territory of the Mother of Hope province, Philippines.

Many of you reading this will regale yourselves in the renewed memory of the impish grin seen here in all its glory on the face of the inimitable Father Paul Douillard. To this day people from Aurora still talk with deep fondness about their memories of Father Paul. It's all in the smile.

As much as this is a souvenir meant mostly to tickle the memories of the Filipinos in the audience, It is also a lesson for everybody. Time is a gift. It has now been one year since we all joined hands on the Holy Mountrain of La Salette. How good it was for us to be there! We will never forget it. Our brothers and sisters in the community will also never forget it. Just like the young missionary priests of the La salette Mission in the Philippines know their roots, so will those who come after us know their roots. We must respect time and we must thank God for making it the fertile field in which our dreams and hopes flourish.

Finally, three quick notes:

1. Don't forget to pray for the European brethren who are taking life seriously in Salmata. I can't wait to read what they are going to give us.

2. The Novena starts on Monday. I should say, THE NOVENA STARTS MONDAY

3. The Provincial Superior of the Mother of Hope Province has arrived in Moreno Valley. We need your prayers.

Also, pray for all the sick and please remember that Father Pat is one of them.

Finally...and this is five, not three, Yvonnique has sent everyone best wishes for a happy anniversary. I have it translated for all of you. I will send it to you tomorrow.